Cabinet 250

Alvar Aalto, 1936–37

2.990,00 €

Cabinet 250, often referred to as the “cocktail cabinet”, returns to the standard Artek collection. Simple in form and celebratory in function, its understatedly beautiful exterior means it works as a stand-alone centrepiece for living rooms and dining areas, perhaps to house special tableware and refreshments.

While Cabinet 250 is credited to Alvar Aalto owing to the inclusion of the L-leg, it is a furniture piece that has the spirit of Aino Aalto running through it, as archival documents show that she was the first to attach a cabinet body to the L-leg design. Its relatively compact size and well-proportioned interior also makes it an attractive and effective storage unit for more everyday items such as bed linen and clothing, fulfilling Aino Aalto’s belief that no object or function is undeserving of aesthetic beauty. The cabinet’s birch veneer body and solid birch legs have a honey stain finish.

Gems from the archive

Materials and dimensions

Legs: solid birch
Corpus, shelf surfaces: birch veneer

Made in Finland and Germany

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